JFK SPEAKS AT NAACP RALLY IN L.A.
Los Angeles, California (JFK+50) On July 10, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts spoke at a rally of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People*. The leading contender for the 1960 Democratic nomination for POTUS said...
"I want our party to speak out with courage and candor on every issue--and that includes civil rights. I want no second class citizenship for any American.
Our job is to turn the American vision of a society in which no man has to suffer discrimination based on race into a living reality. We must secure to every American equal access...to the voting booth, to the schoolroom, to jobs, to housing, to all public facilities."
Senator Kennedy went on say...
"(We are) one nation...and we are all one great people. Our origins may be different, but our destiny is the same. The place to begin is the White House itself where the Chief Executive should exert firm and positive leadership."
*National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization founded in 1909 by W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells. Today's membership is 500,000 with headquarters in Baltimore, MD.
SOURCE
"Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy At NAACP Rally, Los Angeles, California, July 10, 1960," JFK Presidential Library and Museum, www.jfklibrary.org/
JFK Meets with NAACP Representatives
E. Franklin Jackson &
Stephen Gill Spottswood
Photo by Robert Knudsen (1961)
JFK Library Image
Los Angeles, California (JFK+50) On July 10, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts spoke at a rally of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People*. The leading contender for the 1960 Democratic nomination for POTUS said...
"I want our party to speak out with courage and candor on every issue--and that includes civil rights. I want no second class citizenship for any American.
Our job is to turn the American vision of a society in which no man has to suffer discrimination based on race into a living reality. We must secure to every American equal access...to the voting booth, to the schoolroom, to jobs, to housing, to all public facilities."
Senator Kennedy went on say...
"(We are) one nation...and we are all one great people. Our origins may be different, but our destiny is the same. The place to begin is the White House itself where the Chief Executive should exert firm and positive leadership."
*National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization founded in 1909 by W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells. Today's membership is 500,000 with headquarters in Baltimore, MD.
SOURCE
"Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy At NAACP Rally, Los Angeles, California, July 10, 1960," JFK Presidential Library and Museum, www.jfklibrary.org/
JFK Meets with NAACP Representatives
E. Franklin Jackson &
Stephen Gill Spottswood
Photo by Robert Knudsen (1961)
JFK Library Image
